The following documents are available for download:
Photo Sharing for DNCB.pdf – fully-formatted version of document below (20 pages)
Appendix 1_tags_Locations.pdf – Appendix 1, Flickr tags for Locations & Events (3 pages)
Appendix 2_tags_Species.pdf – Appendix 2, Flickr tags for Species names (6 pages)
Viewing DNCB photos on Flickr.pdf – by Jack MacDonald (3 pages, PDF)
– see also web page Viewing DNCB photos on Flickr
DNCB Photographers
Moving from Picasa to Flickr
by Glen Bodie
v. 1.6, 28 February, 2019
***Some formatting has been lost in translation from the original
Photo Sharing for DNCB.pdf is the fully-formatted version of the document below***
Table of Contents
One Pager: Adding your pictures to Flickr and the DNCB Group revised 27 Oct. 2016
Detailed discussion for DNCB Photogs new to Flickr
Introducing some of the features of Flickr
Preparation for uploading to Flickr
Steps to follow to add your pictures
Appendix 1: Recommended tags to use for Location
Appendix 2: Recommended naming to use for Species
Appendix 3: Priority features and how they are supported within Flickr
Revisions
1.0 24 Aug 2016 First release
1.1 02 Sep 2016 Improved one-pager, adds to Appendix 1
1.2 08 Sep 2016 More changes to Appendix 1, added Event codes
1.3 16 Sep 2016 More changes to Appendix 1
1.4 27 Oct 2016 Update to the one-pager
1.5 09 Oct 2018 Update the lists of Events and Locations (Appendix 1)
1.6 28 Feb 2019 Update the lists of Events and Locations (Appendix 1)
One Pager: Adding your pictures to Flickr and the DNCB Group
This assumes that you already have created a Flickr account and know how to use Flickr. If you need additional details, they are in the 20 page version of this document on the DNCB Blog.
We created a Group called DNCB at http://flickr.com/groups/DNCB. The following will help all Photogs add photos in the same way and thus make it more likely that random Viewers will be able to find what they’re looking for. There are 2 group Admins so far (Jack MacDonald and Glen Bodie) if you need help.
- Clean up and prepare all your pictures on your Desktop. If you have the tools, you can also update the JPG files with Title, Description and Tags.
- Login to your personal Flickr account, open the Uploadr
and drag ‘n’ drop all the photos from your desktop folder onto the Uploadr web page. Set this metadata in the Uploadr:
- On all photos (if you haven’t already added these Tags on your Desktop):
- Add a tag for the DNCB Outing as YYYY-## as given in the Blog and the Blog Archive (see https://dncb.wordpress.com/dncb/outings/) and at the same time you can also…
- Add a tag for the Location(s) as described in Appendix 1.
- Add a “DNCB” tag. Doing all these tags at once saves you time.
- Add to Group: select DNCB, your pictures will get sent there automatically when the Uploadr finishes publishing them (Step 3 below).
- Optional: Create a new Album to hold all these pictures (recommended).
- On each photo (if you haven’t already added these fields on your Desktop):
- Edit the Title field to contain the Bird Species (see Appendix 2). It can be the full name of the bird with additional qualifiers, or as simple as “Gull”.
- Edit the Description field if there is more to say than just the Species (you may want to save the image # here because Flickr will lose that when it uploads the image file).
- Add any other Tags you want (e.g., your name, species, features?). Tags for DNCB, the Outing # and Location are required tags for the DNCB group. The Species goes in the Title. Follow the Appendices for Outing #, Location and Species.
Note: all photos in the DNCB Group must be Public viewable (that’s the default setting).
Note: all photos are tagged by default with you as the Owner and All Rights Reserved.
Note: contact an Admin if you do not want to use a personal Flickr account for your DNCB pictures.- Complete the Upload / Publishing (button in the top right)
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- Optional: If you made an Album, open it and set the cover picture, and sort the pictures by the date taken or by manually moving them around. Albums are helpful for organizing lot of pictures in your account.
- Optional: Use the Organizr and select your Album to put some or all of the photos on the Map.
For your existing Flickr photos that are not tagged or in Albums or added to the DNCB group:
- Click on Albums, Create new Album, give it a Title, add the photos from the Findr area across the bottom and Save.
- Click on Batch Organize, select your Album or select “todays” pictures at the bottom, click all and drag the pictures up to the main part of the screen, add mandatory tags (DNCB, Outing #, Location) and Send to Group.
- Optional: Select Map and place those photos on the right place on the Map.
Detailed discussion for DNCB Photogs new to FlickrIntroducing some of the features of Flickr
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- Join Flickr at http://flickr.com. We are recommending that all photogs create a Flickr account for themselves. It’s a good tool for all of your photo sharing needs, and having your own account makes it easier/better for you to post your pictures for viewing by the DNCB readership. Besides, the Flickr account is FREE for 1 Tb of storage! People do NOT have to have a Flickr account just to view your pictures … viewing will be made Public.
- Your Flickr account requires you to get a @yahoo.com email address which is your Flickr logon ID. You will also have a “screen name” which is how you are recognized within Flickr by anyone looking at your pictures.
- You can (and should) change the primary email notification so that messages from Flickr and Flickr users goes to a mailbox you normally look at. Login as you and at the top right corner there is an icon for your account. If you click on it you get a popup menu and a link across the bottom of it says Settings. A display comes up with 4 tabs. You might want to change several things, but for now go to “Emails & Notifications” and click the “edit” link to the right of “Your contact email(s)”. Add another email address, respond to the verification it sends to that email address and then make that email address your Primary one.
- Sooner or later, you ought to change the “Buddy icon” for your account. This is a small picture of something that you want to represent you in lists and things.
- On your main Flickr page in the top right area there is a search bar. Type in DNCB and click Search Groups. That will find the DNCB group that we have set up. Click the Join button and it will tell you that membership is by invitation only, and give you a place to send a message to the Group Admin to be added to the group. It may take a day or two before the Admins notice your request and act on it. If you can wait until you’ve been added before trying all the steps below it might make it easier to follow.
- Now for some explanations of some of the key features of Flickr that we’ll be using:
- Camera Roll – pictures get uploaded into this view of your pictures, and only you can see this view by default. The pictures are in “most recent picture first” order by default. You can view pictures from here, select pictures, edit the information about them and “tag” them (more on tagging later). By default, all pictures you upload are stored as “All rights reserved”.
- One of the views is called Magic View and it groups the pictures by what it THINKS they contain. It is very clever, often fatally wrong, sometimes just amusing. It automatically analyzes the pictures and puts “tags” on it that it thinks are appropriate. I am learning that the only tags that are right are the ones I add myself, and you should definitely be doing some tagging of your photos (more on tagging later). It matters.
- Join Flickr at http://flickr.com. We are recommending that all photogs create a Flickr account for themselves. It’s a good tool for all of your photo sharing needs, and having your own account makes it easier/better for you to post your pictures for viewing by the DNCB readership. Besides, the Flickr account is FREE for 1 Tb of storage! People do NOT have to have a Flickr account just to view your pictures … viewing will be made Public.
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- Photostream – this is the subset of your Camera Roll that others can see depending on the security you applied to your pictures and who is the viewer. For our purposes, anything we want to post for the DNCB we will make Public.
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- Albums – within your account you can group pictures together into an Album, very similarly to what we used to do in Picasa. You pick the pictures that you want in the Camera Roll, and at the bottom of the screen there is an Add to Album link to add to an existing Album or create a New one. Once created, you can open the Album to view it, click on “Edit in Organizer” at the top of the Album to change the order of the pictures and make some changes to all of the pictures. From this view you can Batch edit and (as an example) send all the pictures to a Group.
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- Groups – we have a DNCB group. This is not an account like your personal Flickr account. It is a virtual place where all the photogs can put some or all of their pictures. This is where the DNCB blog will send people to see our pictures from a weekly outing. It’s going to be a bit of a change for all those viewers because Groups cannot contain Albums. That means that they will have to know a bit more about how to find the recent outing (or any other outing for that matter). We’ve added some help information for anyone who comes to the group. It becomes VERY important for the photogs to tag their photos well so that they can be found! But it’s even more useful to someone trying to learn about the birds because they can see all the pictures of a Swan (for example) or all the pictures from Serpentine Fen (for example). But it will take some practice.
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- Groups can also contain Discussions about anything you want. We already have a few discussions started to help people with Naming things and finding things.
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- Right now there are 2 different views of pictures called Groups: the original Flickr version and the new Beta version of the New Group Experience! You can toggle back and forth between them. They behave is slightly different ways but the newer one is better and will eventually replace the original. All descriptions following in this write-up are using the Beta version.
- On all photos (if you haven’t already added these Tags on your Desktop):
This is the Beta View of a Group:
– Admin Blast text is above the pictures
– Photo Pool Line just above pictures
– bottom right corner has a Beta Group switch you can turn off.
This is the Original View of a Group:
– Admin Blast text is beside the pictures
– Doesn’t say Photo Pool anywhere
– line across the top just above the Swallows gives you a link to go back to the Beta version
If you are not logged in with a Flickr account, I think you only can see the Beta version.
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- Tagging –When you upload a picture, you get to define many things “about the picture” (called meta data). You can add Tags which are one word each and these are words that people might want to search for if they were looking for your picture. The kind of thing to include here is the Location and the Species of bird. The search engine is completely literal and it will only find full word matches – but if we are disciplined in the tags we apply to pictures, searches will be successful. We are proposing a list of standard location names and standard bird names for everyone to reduce the variation that could result in pictures not getting found.
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- We don’t yet know for sure if we can transfer all of our saved pictures from Picasa and Google Photos into Flickr. The first problem is to get them all out of Picasa/Google WITH their captions and organization into Albums. The second problem is to take all that metadata and structure and somehow import it into Flickr. We’re working on finding ways. If we fail, we may have to rely on Google Photos and Picasa Web Archives for our “history”. We’re working on it.
Preparation for uploading to Flickr
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- You have taken photos and uploaded them to your computer.
- You have done all the image modification that you need on your computer. There are lots of programs for this so, if you’re not sure what tool to use, just ask some other photog for some suggestions.
- You have identified the bird species in each photo. Read the info on tagging for why this matters. You could:
a) edit the Title field in the EXIF metadata, accessible by many tools including the Details tab of the File Properties in Windows Explorer (shown here), or
b) update the filename of each photo to contain the name of the bird, possibly something like:
“YYYY Location Photo# – Bird.jpg”,
and Flickr will use the filename as the Title, or
c) wait and put the Species name on the picture Title when you are uploading it to Flickr. - You have identified the specific list of pictures you want to present for DNCB.
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- You’re ready to get them onto the DNCB site ….
Steps to follow to add your pictures
- Using your web browser, go to http://flickr.com and logon to your personal Flickr account. If you are just a casual uploader and don’t want to get a Flickr account OR if you already have a Flickr account but you don’t want all your messy DNCB photos to be seen there, then you can also login using the DNCB account at dncbirding@yahoo.com with the same password as we used with the Picasa site. If you do that, your pictures will not be associated with your name unless you also add a tag giving your name or Flickr screen name so people can use that to search for you if they like your pictures.
- Near the upper right corner of the screen, click on the little icon that looks like
to upload new pictures. The upload page will open.
- Open your file explorer to the folder where you have all your pictures to be uploaded. Select all of the ones you want to upload, and drag and drop them onto the Flickr upload page. There is SO MUCH space available to you in Flickr that you maybe just want to upload every frame you ever shot. Once the ones you want have all been uploaded, they appear as small images with the filename below and a place to enter the Description. Suggested actions:
- Highlight all the photos (they have a red border when highlighted) and add a tag for the DNCB Outing. See the numbering used in the Blog – the recent trip to Salt Spring was 2016-32, so they are all YYYY-## format. A complete historical list of these Outing numbers is provided on the Blog site at:
https://dncb.wordpress.com/dncb/outings/ - Highlight all the photos and add a tag for the location. See Appendix 1 following and also included in the DNCB Group Discussion.
- By default, all of your photos are tagged as “Public viewable and searchable”, Safe for minors to see, and All Rights Reserved to you. You can change any of these settings if you want by highlighting the pictures you want to change and clicking on Owner Settings in the left side menu. Any pictures that you are sending to the DNCB Group have to be Public view because people who are not Flickr members need to be able to see them.
- Identify the Species. There are a number of ways this COULD be done, but we really all need to agree on the one way we will all use so that searches across all of our photos will be successful. Our proposal is that you use the top line underneath the small picture which is the Title field from your EXIF data, or your file name. The search algorithm will do a full word, full text search (not case sensitive) of that Title field but it does NOT handle wild cards or partial words. That means Heron is different than Herons, and of course Great Blue Heron is not the same as GBH.We recommend that you use the FULL name of each bird, so far as you know it, include the hyphens and avoid all short forms and plurals. For any given species in your photo you do NOT have to use all of the detailed names in the Title – you might just want to Title your picture as a “Gull”. See Appendix 2 following for a pretty complete list of bird species at the end.
- If you need to describe more than the species, perhaps the environment or the behaviour or amusing commentary, you can put that on the line below called “Description”.
- If you want to add some of all of the photos to an existing of new Album, you can do that from this same display before the upload is completed.
- Having completed all that tagging and labelling, you’re ready to add the photos to your Camera Roll. Click on the flashing “Upload ## Photos” in the top right corner. Flickr will “publish” those photos to your Camera Roll, and present your Photostream showing you all the pictures with the most recent ones first.
- At this point every photo you uploaded is in your Flickr account, but not in the DNCB Group. You can organize your photos into Albums, if you want to, by going to the Camera Roll, selecting the pictures you want to include (you can click on first and shift-click on last) and clicking on Add to Album in the menu across the bottom. You can add them to an existing Album of yours, or you can Create a new Album. A new Album just needs a title and optional description and you can call it anything you want without affecting how your photos are used in the DNCB.
- When looking at the Camera Roll or Photostream or a specific Album there is a dropdown menu on the right side of the Title line that says More. Under there is Organize – and you can use that to reorder the photos, make bulk edits, add the pictures to the Map, or add to a Group. Now we want to add these photos into the DNCB Group.
- At the bottom of that Organizr view is an area that Flickr calls the Findr. You can select an Album name, or enter the DNCB outing Number that you tagged all the photos with into the Search box, and Findr will show you all those pictures.
- Click “Select all” just above those little pictures to highlight / select all of the photos. Then click on one and drag them all up into the main Organizr space.
- The menu across the top of the Organizr space has a selection to “Send to group”. Everyone will be limited to only add 20 pictures per day. That is meant to encourage you to be selective and only upload the really good and useful photos. But if you have more than that which you really want to upload, you can do 20 more of them the next day and the next. If you try to upload more than 20 in one day it pops up a little message telling you to try again because it doesn’t know which 20 (of your many many excellent selected photos) it should put into the Group.For our initial test period, we have taken that limit away so you can put more of your pictures into the DNCB Group to get it started. Click on Send to Group, select the DNCB Group, and it will add your photos to the DNCB “photo pool”.
If you want to geo-tag your photos and locate them on the Map, here is one way to do it. I don’t know if Flickr can process the geolocation if it is provided in the EXIF data if your camera has a GPS built-in. Regardless, here is one way. However you get into the Organizr, and however you find a group of photos in the Findr, then call up the Map from the Organizr menu across the top. Position the map to the place you want (pan and zoom), select the desired photos from the Findr area and drag and drop that selection on the map. You’ll have a little “dot” associated with the selection and you can drop that dot anywhere to place those photos at that spot.
- Let’s go see what it looks like in the Group (Beta version). Under your regular account display there are a couple of ways to get to the display of the Groups which you belong to. As time goes on, you are likely to want to belong to a large number of other groups just because they’re interesting. Some you might think about as a Birder are:
- Birds Photos
- Birds birds birds birds!
- Field Guide: Birds of British Columbia, Canada
- Owls
- Wild Birds of North America
- Raptors of North America
- BirdWatching Magazine
- The Birds of British Columbia
- Shorebirds of British Columbia
- British Columbia Birds
But for now let’s just go to the Group called DNCB. The default display is the Photo Pool. On the line just above the pictures, at the right side edge, there is a magnifying glass. This is the tool that everyone will use to find the particular pictures they want, and it will rely on the information you have provided about each picture for them to find it. People might also look at the Map to see where we have been.
We have put specific information in Appendix 1 (Locations) and Appendix 2 (Species) so that you can all identify things in a consistent way, so that everyone else can find them. When you click the search magnifying glass, the search panel above starts with DNCB and Photos in it and space for you to type. What can you type?
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- The DNCB Blog Outing Number YYYY-## which you would know if you read the Blog.
- The Location, the one word meaning the place where we went, according to the tags given in Appendix 1.
- The Species, one or more of the words that are listed in Appendix 2 to describe all the birds we find around Vancouver.
- Any other word(s) you want, but it may be that no one has tagged their photos with those words … it’s a crap shoot!
- Search is for whole words only e.g. a search for “yellowlegs” could show several photos, but a search for “yellow” could show nothing. Likewise, a search for “yellow-” would not show photos of yellow-rumped warblers.
- There is no “clear” button to remove the filter – instead you just delete the search terms from the search box.
- Clicking the X in the search box will cause the search to revert to all Flickr photos, instead of being restricted to the DNCB group. The search results are subsequently divided between people you follow and everyone else. It probably shows you a LOT more pictures than you were actually looking for.
- Highlight all the photos (they have a red border when highlighted) and add a tag for the DNCB Outing. See the numbering used in the Blog – the recent trip to Salt Spring was 2016-32, so they are all YYYY-## format. A complete historical list of these Outing numbers is provided on the Blog site at:
One thing that I don’t like too much is that, for a non-experienced Flickr user (without a Flickr ID), once you get to a subset of the DNCB Group Photo Pool, it is VERY easy to go wandering off into some photographer’s work, other groups, then other photographers and other pictures that have nothing to do with what you came there to look at. I don’t think there’s any way (or any desire for Flickr to try) to keep people within a certain context once they get there. We’ll have to try to educate our viewers.
- For any set of pictures that were shown to you, in the whole Group Pool or in some search subset, you can click on any Photo to see a larger image and find out more about it. Below the image you can see the name of the photographer, the Title and Description that you set when you were uploading, the Date, information about which Camera settings were used, details about the privacy and searchability. From there you can scroll through the other pictures that were in your search results. On any picture you can click on it to expand it / make it larger so you see more, and click again to go back to normal size. You, or anyone who has a Flickr ID, can add a comment. Unfortunately, we cannot make it possible for non-Flickr users to add comments. But even if you don’t have a Flickr ID, you can click on links in the details to take you to the Photographer’s site, or just the Album that contains this photo. It should make it very easy for the general DNCB Blog viewer to find out what we’ve done lately, and find more pictures from any particular photographer. There’s really so much more in what you can do in Flickr, especially how you can connect with others and share your photos. This write-up was focussed more on what you need to do for using Flickr for the DNCB and how you can make it easier for everyone else to find your photos. Please fool around and try things out within your own Flickr account, but be a little careful about what you might put into the DNCB group. We’d like to have a well enough structured use of this flexible tool that it will give value to all those people out there who don’t take pictures and don’t have any idea what tagging a photo means.Problems? If you have any issues or problems or want to do something more than adding and editing your Photos and your Albums, please contact the Administrators for the DNCB Group – Jack MacDonald or Glen Bodie.
Appendix 1: Recommended tags to use for Location
In order for the Flickr searching to be able to find your pictures based on the location where they were taken, we all have to use the same tags for the same locations. If I tag a picture with “Boundary” and you tag it with “BBRP” then no search will ever find both of our pictures … it is as though they were taken in different places.
This Appendix is also in a Discussion on the DNCB Group but only group members can see that.
The source for this list is all the sites I could find where we have already visited, and I picked one word tags to represent that. If we ever want to change any of these there may be a LOT of pictures to edit to make corrections, so let’s recommend any changes quickly, and then live with it!
Tag to use in Flickr | Full name of this Location |
Alaksen | Alaksen National Wildlife Area, Delta, BC |
Ambleside | Ambleside Park, West Vancouver, BC |
Barnston | Barnston Island, Surrey, BC |
Blackie | Blackie Spit, Surrey, BC |
Blaine | Blaine Wharf, Drayton Harbor, Semiahmoo Resort, Washington, USA |
Blakeburn | Blakeburn Lagoon, Port Coquitlam, BC |
Bloedel | Bloedel Conservatory, Vancouver, BC |
BoundaryBay | Boundary Bay Regional Park, Delta, BC |
BowenIsland | Bowen Island, BC |
Brunswick | Brunswick Point, Delta, BC |
BrydonHiKnoll | Brydon Lagoon and Hi-Knoll Park, Langley, BC |
Burnaby | Burnaby Mountain and Burnaby Lake, Burnaby, BC |
BurnsBog | Burns Bog, Delta, BC |
Camosun | Camosun Bog, Vancouver, BC |
Campbell | Campbell Valley Regional Park, Langley, BC |
Cates | Cates Park, North Vancouver, BC |
Cheam | Cheam Lake Wetlands Regional Park, Chilliwack, BC |
Colony | Colony Farm Regional Park, Port Coquitlam, BC |
Cypress | Yew Lake, Cypress Mountain Park, Bowen Lookout, West Vancouver, BC |
Deas | Deas Island Regional Park, Delta, BC |
DeBoville | DeBoville Slough, Coquitlam, BC |
DeerLake | Deer Lake Park, Burnaby, BC |
Derby | Derby Reach Regional Park, Langley, BC |
Dike | Boundary Bay Dike at various cross streets, Delta and Surrey, BC |
DikeRichmond | The Dike around Lulu Island (Richmond), BC |
Dollarton | Dollarton and Deep Cove, BC |
Elgin | Elgin Heritage Park, Surrey, BC |
Ferry | Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal Causeway, Delta, BC |
GulfIslands | Salt Spring Island, Mayne, etc etc, BC |
Harrison | Harrison Mills, BC |
Iona | Iona Beach Regional Park, Richmond, BC |
Jackman | Jackman Wetlands, Aldergrove, BC |
Jericho | Jericho Beach, Vancouver, BC |
Ladner | Ladner Harbour Park and South Arm Marsh, Delta, BC |
LighthousePark | Lighthouse Park, West Vancouver, BC |
Lily | Lily Point, Point Roberts, Washington, USA |
LittleCampbell | Little Campbell River, Hatchery & Semiahmoo Fish & Game Club, BC |
Manning | E C Manning Provincial Park, BC |
MaplewoodFlats | Maplewood Flats Conservation Area, North Vancouver, BC |
MillLake | Mill Lake, Abbotsford, BC |
Minnekhada | Minnekhada Regional Park, Coquitlam, BC |
MtBaker | Mt Baker, Washington, USA |
MudBay | Mud Bay Park, Surrey, BC |
North40 | North 40 Dog Park, Delta, BC |
Pier – see WhiteRock | White Rock Pier, White Rock, BC |
Pitt | Pitt Polder Ecological Reserve and Pitt Lake and Grant Narrows, BC |
PointRoberts | Lighthouse Marine Park, Point Roberts, Washington, USA |
PortMoody | Port Moody, BC |
QEPark | Queen Elizabeth Park, Vancouver, BC |
Reifel | George C Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary, Delta, BC |
SanJuan | San Juan Islands, Washington, USA |
Serpentine | Serpentine Fen, Surrey, BC |
SFU | Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC |
Skagit | Skagit Valley, Washington, BC |
StanleyPark | Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC |
Steveston | Steveston, BC |
Sunnyside | Sunnyside Acres Urban Forest, Surrey, BC |
SurreyBend | Surrey Bend Regional Park, Surrey, BC |
Tennant | Tennant Lake Park, Ferndale, Washington, USA |
TerraNova | Terra Nova Rural Park, Richmond, BC |
Tynehead | Tynehead Regional Park, Surrey, BC |
UBC | UBC Botanical Gardens, Vancouver, BC |
VanDusen | Van Dusen Gardens, Vancouver, BC |
Whidbey | Whidbey Island, Washington, USA |
Whitehorn | Point Whitehorn Marine Reserve, Blaine, Washington, USA |
WhiteRock | White Rock Pier, White Rock, BC |
Whytecliff | Whytecliff Park, West Vancouver, BC |
Tags for Events
There are other DNCB Events for which we take pictures, and they should use the following tags on all those uploaded photos so that they can be found by people. All DNCB bird watching outings have a number – and a complete list of them is provided in the DNCB blog website under “Previous Outings”. These Event tags serve the same purpose.
Tag to use in Flickr | Full Meaning of the Tag |
AnimalExpo | Animal Expo in Memorial Park, Ladner, BC |
BBPA | “Boundary Bay Park Association” including “Cammidge House Committee” |
BIFV | Birds in Focus – Visual Presentation |
BIFW | Birds in Focus – Photography Workshop |
BootSale | Car Boot Sale at Centennial Beach, can also use Event tag “BBPA” |
BOTB | “Birds on the Bay”, can also use Location tag “BoundaryBay” |
CasualOuting | Something that’s not an official DNS/DNCB outing |
CBC | Christmas Bird Count |
ChristmasBirdCount | Christmas Bird Count |
DayAtTheFarm | Day at the Farm on Westham Island, Delta, BC |
FathersDay | Father’s Day Breakfast, Sunday in the Park at Centennial Beach, can also use Location tag “BoundaryBay” |
GardenParty | Delta Naturalists’ Society annual Garden Party |
LandFill | Open House at the Vancouver Landfill, Delta, BC |
MothersDay | Mother’s Day Tea with the Birds at Cammidge House, can also use Event tag “BBPA” and/or Location tag “BoundaryBay” |
NestBox | Delta Nats Nesting Box Maintenance, many Location tags possible |
OwlNestBox | Specific for the Nest Box folks maintaining the Owl Nest Boxes |
RaptorFestival | Richmond Raptor Festival in Terra Nova Park, so can also use Location tag “TerraNova” |
StarryNight | Starry Night on Deas Island, so can also use Location tag “Deas” |
Watershed | Fish Release at Watershed Park, North Delta, BC |
More Location tags and Event tags can be added at any time. If you can’t find one that matches what you need, ask one of the DNCB Flickr Admins (Jack and Glen).
We’re hoping to figure out a way that the drop-down list for picking these tags can get pre-populated for you with all the “right” tags.
Appendix 2: Recommended naming to use for Species
In order for the Flickr searching to be able to find your pictures based on the specific species of bird, we all have to use the same names for the same birds. If I title a picture with “Heron” and you title it with “GBH” then no search will ever find both of our pictures … it is as though they were taken of different birds.
With birds it is a little different than Locations because you can always title a bird to different levels of detail. For example, it may be a Sparrow, and Golden-crowned, and a male, and a juvenile. That’s 4 words in the Title. You can imagine someone searching for all the Sparrows, or just all the Golden-crowned (and Sparrow too to make sure they don’t get a Golden-crowned Kinglet by mistake), or maybe all the male Sparrows, or maybe all the juvenile male anythings.
The source for this list is all the Nature Vancouver Seasonal Check List (August 2013) at http://naturevancouver.ca/sites/naturevancouver.ca/VNHS%20files/Birds%20of%20Greater%20Vancouver%20Checklist.pdf. For any given species in your photo you do NOT have to use all of the detailed names in the Title – you might just want to Title your picture as a “Gull”. This list is sorted alphabetically by the Main Name of the species.
This Appendix is also in a Discussion on the DNCB Group but only group members can see that.
You may disagree with the way some of the birds are named in this list – that’s why I used Nature Vancouver as my source! If we ever want to change any of these there may be a LOT of pictures to edit to make corrections, so let’s recommend any changes quickly, and then live with it!
As well as this list, you can also add other qualifier words to the Title field for the full-text search. But let’s all be consistent and use this same set:
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- Male, Female, Pair
- Juvenile, Immature, Moulting, Eclipsed
Anything in Italics in this table is optional – common or useful, but not the official name of the Species. I added them so that someone searching for a Duck would find a Bufflehead, for example.
Name of Species | Main Name | Name of Species | Main Name | |
Siberian Accentor | Accentor | Barn Owl | Owl | |
Laysan Albatross | Albatross | Barred Owl | Owl | |
Cassin’s Auklet | Auklet | Boreal Owl | Owl | |
Rhinoceros Auklet | Auklet | Burrowing Owl | Owl | |
American Avocet | Avocet | Flammulated Owl | Owl | |
American Bittern | Bittern | Great Gray Owl | Owl | |
Least Bittern | Bittern | Great Horned Owl | Owl | |
Brewer’s Blackbird | Blackbird | Long-eared Owl | Owl | |
Red-winged Blackbird | Blackbird | Northern Saw-whet Owl | Owl | |
Rusty Blackbird | Blackbird | Short-eared Owl | Owl | |
Yellow-headed Blackbird | Blackbird | Snowy Owl | Owl | |
Mountain Bluebird | Bluebird | Spotted Owl | Owl | |
Western Bluebird | Bluebird | Black Oystercatcher | Oystercatcher | |
Red-flanked Bluetail | Bluetail | Gray Partridge | Partridge | |
Bobolink | Bobolink | Northern Parula | Parula | |
Brambling | Brambling | American White Pelican | Pelican | |
Brant Goose | Brant | Brown Pelican | Pelican | |
Bufflehead Duck | Bufflehead | Red Phalarope | Phalarope | |
Indigo Bunting | Bunting | Red-necked Phalarope | Phalarope | |
Lark Bunting | Bunting | Wilson’s Phalarope | Phalarope | |
Lazuli Bunting | Bunting | Ring-necked Pheasant | Pheasant | |
McKay’s Bunting | Bunting | Black Phoebe | Phoebe | |
Painted Bunting | Bunting | Eastern Phoebe | Phoebe | |
Snow Bunting | Bunting | Say’s Phoebe | Phoebe | |
Bushtit | Bushtit | Band-tailed Pigeon | Pigeon | |
Canvasback Duck | Canvasback | Rock Pigeon | Pigeon | |
Gray Catbird | Catbird | Northern Pintail | Pintail | |
Yellow-breasted Chat | Chat | American Pipit | Pipit | |
Black-capped Chickadee | Chickadee | Red-throated Pipit | Pipit | |
Boreal Chickadee | Chickadee | Black-bellied Plover | Plover | |
Chestnut-backed Chickadee | Chickadee | Mountain Plover | Plover | |
Mountain Chickadee | Chickadee | Semipalmated Plover | Plover | |
Eurasian Collared-Dove | Collared-Dove | Snowy Plover | Plover | |
American Coot | Coot | Common Poorwill | Poorwill | |
Brandt’s Cormorant | Cormorant | Rock Ptarmigan | Ptarmigan | |
Double-crested Cormorant | Cormorant | White-tailed Ptarmigan | Ptarmigan | |
Pelagic Cormorant | Cormorant | Tufted Puffin | Puffin | |
Brown-headed Cowbird | Cowbird | Northern Pygmy-Owl | Pygmy-Owl | |
Sandhill Crane | Crane | California Quail | Quail | |
Brown Creeper | Creeper | Virginia Rail | Rail | |
Red Crossbill | Crossbill | Yellow Rail | Rail | |
White-winged Crossbill | Crossbill | Common Raven | Raven | |
Northwestern Crow | Crow | Redhead | Redhead | |
Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Cuckoo | Common Redpoll | Redpoll | |
Bristle-thighed Curlew | Curlew | Hoary Redpoll | Redpoll | |
Far Eastern Curlew | Curlew | Spotted Redshank | Redshank | |
Little Curlew | Curlew | American Redstart | Redstart | |
Long-billed Curlew | Curlew | Painted Redstart | Redstart | |
Dickcissel | Dickcissel | American Robin | Robin | |
American Dipper | Dipper | Ruff | Ruff | |
Mourning Dove | Dove | Sanderling | Sanderling | |
Oriental Turtle-Dove | Turtle-Dove | Baird’s Sandpiper | Sandpiper | |
Long-billed Dowitcher | Dowitcher | Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Sandpiper | |
Short-billed Dowitcher | Dowitcher | Curlew Sandpiper | Sandpiper | |
Black Duck | Duck | Least Sandpiper | Sandpiper | |
Harlequin Duck | Duck | Pectoral Sandpiper | Sandpiper | |
Long-tailed Duck | Duck | Rock Sandpiper | Sandpiper | |
Ring-necked Duck | Duck | Semipalmated Sandpiper | Sandpiper | |
Ruddy Duck | Duck | Sharp-tailed Sandpiper | Sandpiper | |
Tufted Duck | Duck | Solitary Sandpiper | Sandpiper | |
Wood Duck | Duck | Spoonbill Sandpiper | Sandpiper | |
Dunlin | Dunlin | Spotted Sandpiper | Sandpiper | |
Bald Eagle | Eagle | Stilt Sandpiper | Sandpiper | |
Golden Eagle | Eagle | Upland Sandpiper | Sandpiper | |
Cattle Egret | Egret | Western Sandpiper | Sandpiper | |
Great Egret | Egret | White-rumped Sandpiper | Sandpiper | |
Snowy Egret | Egret | Wood Sandpiper | Sandpiper | |
Common Eider | Eider | Lesser Sand-Plover | Sand-Plover | |
King Eider | Eider | Red-breasted Sapsucker | Sapsucker | |
Peregrine Falcon | Falcon | Red-naped Sapsucker | Sapsucker | |
Prairie Falcon | Falcon | Williamson’s Sapsucker | Sapsucker | |
Fieldfare | Fieldfare | Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | Sapsucker | |
Cassin’s Finch | Finch | Greater Scaup | Scaup | |
Gray-crowned Rosy Finch | Finch | Lesser Scaup | Scaup | |
House Finch | Finch | Black Scoter | Scoter | |
Purple Finch | Finch | Surf Scoter | Scoter | |
Northern Flicker | Flicker | White-winged Scoter | Scoter | |
Alder Flycatcher | Flycatcher | Western Screech-Owl | Screech-Owl | |
Ash-throated Flycatcher | Flycatcher | Western Scrub-Jay | Scrub-Jay | |
Dusky Flycatcher | Flycatcher | Black-vented Shearwater | Shearwater | |
Hammond’s Flycatcher | Flycatcher | Short-tailed Shearwater | Shearwater | |
Least Flycatcher | Flycatcher | Sooty Shearwater | Shearwater | |
Olive-sided Flycatcher | Flycatcher | Northern Shoveler | Shoveler | |
Pacific-slope Flycatcher | Flycatcher | Loggerhead Shrike | Shrike | |
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher | Flycatcher | Northern Shrike | Shrike | |
Willow Flycatcher | Flycatcher | Pine Siskin | Siskin | |
Magnificent Frigatebird | Frigatebird | South Polar Skua | Skua | |
Northern Fulmar | Fulmar | Smew | Smew | |
Gadwall Duck | Gadwall | Wilson’s Snipe | Snipe | |
Common Gallinule | Gallinule | Townsend’s Solitaire | Solitaire | |
Garganey Duck | Garganey | Sora Rail | Sora | |
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | Gnatcatcher | American Tree Sparrow | Sparrow | |
Bar-tailed Godwit | Godwit | Baird’s Sparrow | Sparrow | |
Hudsonian Godwit | Godwit | Black-throated Sparrow | Sparrow | |
Marbled Godwit | Godwit | Brewer’s Sparrow | Sparrow | |
Barrow’s Goldeneye | Goldeneye | Chipping Sparrow | Sparrow | |
Common Goldeneye | Goldeneye | Clay-colored Sparrow | Sparrow | |
American Golden-Plover | Golden-Plover | Fox Sparrow | Sparrow | |
Pacific Golden-Plover | Golden-Plover | Golden-crowned Sparrow | Sparrow | |
American Goldfinch | Goldfinch | Grasshopper Sparrow | Sparrow | |
Lesser Goldfinch | Goldfinch | Harris’ Sparrow | Sparrow | |
Cackling Goose | Goose | House Sparrow | Sparrow | |
Canada Goose | Goose | Lark Sparrow | Sparrow | |
Emperor Goose | Goose | Lincoln’s Sparrow | Sparrow | |
Greater White-fronted Goose | Goose | Nelson’s Sparrow | Sparrow | |
Ross’ Goose | Goose | Sagebrush Sparrow | Sparrow | |
Snow Goose | Goose | Savannah Sparrow | Sparrow | |
Northern Goshawk | Goshawk | Song Sparrow | Sparrow | |
Common Grackle | Grackle | Swamp Sparrow | Sparrow | |
Clark’s Grebe | Grebe | Vesper Sparrow | Sparrow | |
Eared Grebe | Grebe | White-crowned Sparrow | Sparrow | |
Horned Grebe | Grebe | White-throated Sparrow | Sparrow | |
Pied-billed Grebe | Grebe | European Starling | Starling | |
Red-necked Grebe | Grebe | Black-necked Stilt | Stilt | |
Western Grebe | Grebe | Little Stint | Stint | |
Black-headed Grosbeak | Grosbeak | Red-necked Stint | Stint | |
Evening Grosbeak | Grosbeak | Temminck’s Stint | Stint | |
Pine Grosbeak | Grosbeak | Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel | Storm-Petrel | |
Rose-breasted Grosbeak | Grosbeak | Leach’s Storm-Petrel | Storm-Petrel | |
Ruffed Grouse | Grouse | Surfbird | Surfbird | |
Sooty Grouse | Grouse | Bank Swallow | Swallow | |
Pigeon Guillemot | Guillemot | Barn Swallow | Swallow | |
Black-headed Gull | Gull | Cave Swallow | Swallow | |
Bonaparte’s Gull | Gull | Cliff Swallow | Swallow | |
California Gull | Gull | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | Swallow | |
Franklin’s Gull | Gull | Tree Swallow | Swallow | |
Glaucous Gull | Gull | Violet-green Swallow | Swallow | |
Glaucous-winged Gull | Gull | Mute Swan | Swan | |
Heermann’s Gull | Gull | Trumpeter Swan | Swan | |
Herring Gull | Gull | Tundra Swan | Swan | |
Iceland Gull | Gull | Black Swift | Swift | |
Ivory Gull | Gull | Vaux’s Swift | Swift | |
Laughing Gull | Gull | White-throated Swift | Swift | |
Little Gull | Gull | Western Tanager | Tanager | |
Mew Gull | Gull | Wandering Tattler | Tattler | |
Ring-billed Gull | Gull | Baikal Teal | Teal | |
Sabine’s Gull | Gull | Blue-winged Teal | Teal | |
Slaty-backed Gull | Gull | Cinnamon Teal | Teal | |
Thayer’s Gull | Gull | Green-winged Teal | Teal | |
Western Gull | Gull | Arctic Tern | Tern | |
Gyrfalcon | Gyrfalcon | Black Tern | Tern | |
Northern Harrier | Harrier | Caspian Tern | Tern | |
Broad-winged Hawk | Hawk | Common Tern | Tern | |
Cooper’s Hawk | Hawk | Elegant Tern | Tern | |
Red-tailed Hawk | Hawk | Forster’s Tern | Tern | |
Rough-legged Hawk | Hawk | Brown Thrasher | Thrasher | |
Sharp-shinned Hawk | Hawk | Sage Thrasher | Thrasher | |
Swainson’s Hawk | Hawk | Dusky Thrush | Thrush | |
Northern Hawk-Owl | Hawk-Owl | Hermit Thrush | Thrush | |
Great Blue Heron | Heron | Swainson’s Thrush | Thrush | |
Green Heron | Heron | Varied Thrush | Thrush | |
Anna’s Hummingbird | Hummingbird | Green-tailed Towhee | Towhee | |
Black-chinned Hummingbird | Hummingbird | Spotted Towhee | Towhee | |
Calliope Hummingbird | Hummingbird | Black Turnstone | Turnstone | |
Costa’s Hummingbird | Hummingbird | Ruddy Turnstone | Turnstone | |
Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Hummingbird | Veery | Veery | |
Rufous Hummingbird | Hummingbird | Cassin’s Vireo | Vireo | |
Long-tailed Jaeger | Jaeger | Hutton’s Vireo | Vireo | |
Parasitic Jaeger | Jaeger | Philadelphia Vireo | Vireo | |
Pomarine Jaeger | Jaeger | Red-eyed Vireo | Vireo | |
Blue Jay | Jay | Warbling Vireo | Vireo | |
Gray Jay | Jay | Turkey Vulture | Vulture | |
Steller’s Jay | Jay | Eastern Yellow Wagtail | Wagtail | |
Dark-eyed Junco | Junco | White Wagtail | Wagtail | |
American Kestrel | Kestrel | Black-and-white Warbler | Warbler | |
Killdeer | Killdeer | Blackpoll Warbler | Warbler | |
Eastern Kingbird | Kingbird | Black-throated Blue Warbler | Warbler | |
Tropical Kingbird | Kingbird | Black-throated Gray Warbler | Warbler | |
Western Kingbird | Kingbird | Black-throated Green Warbler | Warbler | |
Belted Kingfisher | Kingfisher | Canada Warbler | Warbler | |
Golden-crowned Kinglet | Kinglet | Chestnut-sided Warbler | Warbler | |
Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Kinglet | Golden-winged Warbler | Warbler | |
White-tailed Kite | Kite | Hermit Warbler | Warbler | |
Black-legged Kittiwake | Kittiwake | Hooded Warbler | Warbler | |
Great Knot | Knot | MacGillivray’s Warbler | Warbler | |
Red Knot | Knot | Magnolia Warbler | Warbler | |
Horned Lark | Lark | Nashville Warbler | Warbler | |
Sky Lark | Lark | Orange-crowned Warbler | Warbler | |
Chestnut-collared Longspur | Longspur | Palm Warbler | Warbler | |
Lapland Longspur | Longspur | Prothonotary Warbler | Warbler | |
McCown’s Longspur | Longspur | Tennessee Warbler | Warbler | |
Smith’s Longspur | Longspur | Townsend’s Warbler | Warbler | |
Common Loon | Loon | Virginia’s Warbler | Warbler | |
Pacific Loon | Loon | Wilson’s Warbler | Warbler | |
Red-throated Loon | Loon | Yellow Warbler | Warbler | |
Yellow-billed Loon | Loon | Yellow-rumped Warbler | Warbler | |
Black-billed Magpie | Magpie | Northern Waterthrush | Waterthrush | |
Mallard Duck | Mallard | Bohemian Waxwing | Waxwing | |
Purple Martin | Martin | Cedar Waxwing | Waxwing | |
Western Meadowlark | Meadowlark | Northern Wheatear | Wheatear | |
Common Merganser | Merganser | Whimbrel | Whimbrel | |
Hooded Merganser | Merganser | American Wigeon | Wigeon | |
Red-breasted Merganser | Merganser | Eurasian Wigeon | Wigeon | |
Merlin | Merlin | Willet | Willet | |
Northern Mockingbird | Mockingbird | Acorn Woodpecker | Woodpecker | |
Common Murre | Murre | American Three-toed Woodpecker | Woodpecker | |
Ancient Murrelet | Murrelet | Black-backed Woodpecker | Woodpecker | |
Marbled Murrelet | Murrelet | Downy Woodpecker | Woodpecker | |
Crested Myna | Myna | Hairy Woodpecker | Woodpecker | |
Common Nighthawk | Nighthawk | Lewis’ Woodpecker | Woodpecker | |
Lesser Nighthawk | Nighthawk | Pileated Woodpecker | Woodpecker | |
Black-crowned Night-Heron | Night-Heron | Western Wood-Pewee | Wood-Pewee | |
Clark’s Nutcracker | Nutcracker | Bewick’s Wren | Wren | |
Pygmy Nuthatch | Nuthatch | House Wren | Wren | |
Red-breasted Nuthatch | Nuthatch | Marsh Wren | Wren | |
White-breasted Nuthatch | Nuthatch | Pacific Wren | Wren | |
Baltimore Oriole | Oriole | Rock Wren | Wren | |
Bullock’s Oriole | Oriole | Sedge Wren | Wren | |
Hooded Oriole | Oriole | Greater Yellowlegs | Yellowlegs | |
Osprey | Osprey | Lesser Yellowlegs | Yellowlegs | |
Ovenbird | Ovenbird | Common Yellowthroat | Yellowthroat |
Appendix 3: Priority features and how they are supported within Flickr
- Single URL that unknown users without IDs can use to get to all our Albums of pictures
Flickr: yes - Albums can be ordered (automatically?) with most recent first
Flickr: Albums are only on individual sites, not Groups and there are various ways to arrange them - Albums contain the following information: geo location, description, date, photog name
Flickr: yes - Pictures contain the following information: geo location, caption/name of the bird, date, photog name, at reasonably high resolution
Flickr: yes - Easy to upload photos to the site and into an Album from the photogs computer, preferably with some bulk processing tools to set information onto the pictures
Flickr: yes - Low or zero cost for the DNS
Flickr: yes, might be cost if we want to avoid some Ads on our photo collections - Room to hold enough pictures for the foreseeable future. In Picasa we had 314 folders with about 30 pictures in each folder and each picture was an average of 600 kb, so that’s almost 10,000 pictures or 6000 Mb and leaving room for the future we’d want 10 times that = 60 Gb
Flickr: 1 Tb. If each picture was 3 Gb that is over 300,000 pictures. Current Picasa site has about 10,000 pictures so that is 30 times more. - Easy to find a picture if you just remember the name of the bird or the approximate date, etc
Flickr: has extensive search capability BUT the search can only be effective if we have some discipline about how we name and tag the pictures - A solution that is very good for going forward and HOPEFULLY one to which we can easily add our old Picasa and Google Photos Albums.
Flickr: going forward is good. Still remains to be seen if we can extract what we have in Picasa and Google Photos and manage to upload that to Flickr. We’ll work on that, but not a sure thing. - Ability for photogs to maintain copyright of their pictures even when presenting them publicly.
Flickr: yes